Motivational Quotes

Action

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Action

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

11.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The only way to start is to start.

16.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

23.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Action is character.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert